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Fovea
In the eye, a tiny pit located in the macula of the retina that provides the clearest vision of all. Only in the fovea are the layers of the retina spread aside to let light fall directly on the cones, the cells that give the sharpest…
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- Primary care provider In insurance parlance, a physician chosen by or assigned to a patient, who both provides primary care and…
- Blood culture A test designed to detect if microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi are present in blood. A sample of…
- Proxy, health care A health care proxy is one form of advance medical directive. Advance medical directives pertain to treatment…
- Hippocrates Rally credited with turning away from divine notions of medicine and using observation of the body as a basis…
- Extrinsic 1. Not an essential or inherent part of a something such as a structure.2. Coming from the outside. Extrinsic…
- Homozygosity The state of possessing two identical forms of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent. For…
- Giant platelet syndrome Nard-Soulier syndrome): This condition is a primary problem of platelets in which the platelets lack the…
- Geography, medical See: Medical geography
- Child neglect Child neglect is the most frequently reported form of child abuse (60% of all cases) and the most lethal…
- Allergic granulomatosis A disease (also often called the Churg-Straus syndrome) characterized by inflammation of the blood vessels in…